2nd not 1st: Essex 1899-1914 (6th ed)

the last match CricketArchive records for Clarke, so he presumably played no more cricket at a higher level. In 1914 Clarke was a probationer of the Institute of Actuaries and a Serjeant in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps. On 18 October 1914 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and later to Captain, attached to the 8th Battalion of the London Regiment. In the summer of 1918 he earned the Military Cross but later was killed in action. Edward Coleman who stumped Hardinge in 1910 and Geoffrey Davies who played in the match also died in the war. Batting and fielding record M I NO RUNS AVE 100s 50s CT ST Friendly 1 1 32 32.00 Bowling Balls M R W 5wI 10wM Friendly 42 0 51 1 Highest score: 32. Best bowling 1-51 Edwards, Robert (1888-1965) Born 6 August 1888, Paddington, London. Died 12 March 1965, Beyton, Suffolk. Played 1910. Robert was the third son of the barrister Arthur Janion Edwards JP and Hilda Margaret Tennant of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Arthur was a keen Essex CCC supporter who, on the private ground at his home, often hosted country house matches featuring well-known players. For a while he was a committee member who in 1901 challenged the authenticity of Charles McGahey’s appointment as Assistant Secretary in an early case of alleged shamateurism. Robert’s older brother Guy played two 1st XI matches for Essex in 1907. Until July 1901, Robert Edwards was educated at Hazelwood School where he was a member of the Football and Cricket XIs. Of his 1901 cricket season the school wrote: ‘Jumps about too much, but has a fair idea of batting. A fast and too erratic bowler, and good field.’ He went to Eton College from 1902 to 1907 and then to Wye Agricultural College in Kent, where he was captain of the Cricket XI for three consecutive years. On leaving college he went to work in Shropshire as a land agent for Lord Brownlow. Edwards’ sole match for Essex XI was in 1910 against Kent 2nd XI at Hythe, which is only 14 miles from Wye College. He came on to bowl first change and took a wicket but went at more than a run a ball. Then he opened the innings and was bowled for 2. Edwards was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Essex Yeomanry in 1909 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1912. He was mobilised on the outbreak of war and landed with his regiment